Bazaar inspires sweet treat

5:55 PM,
Apr. 9, 2013

1. Rolling the dough for a Mollye's Delight. 2. Gilda Hesdorffer makes the initial cuts in the pastry dough. 3. Shirley Eriksen wraps pastry dough over the filling. 4. Mollye's Delight, a cream cheese-filled pastry made by the late Mollye Rones, was a staple at the bazaar; her daughter, Gilda Hesdorffer, has passed along the recipe.

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The sweetness filling this storied pastry comes from more than cream cheese.

Mollye's Delight was "a cake that she turned into a career," Gilda Hesdorffer said of her late mother, Mollye Rones.

It would become her second. Her first was as a department store owner and buyer. "My mother was a career woman. She worked hard all her life," Hesdorffer said, "but never did learn to bake or cook or anything like that. ...